About the Book: Make To Stick
To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort.
Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different
learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier.
Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on
recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors
offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners.
Memory plays a central role in our ability to carry out complex cognitive tasks,
such as applying knowledge to problems never before encountered and drawing
inferences from facts already known. New insights into how